DIANA VREELAND
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DIANA VREELAND

A TYPESCRIPT LETTER

已结束2017年10月4日

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DIANA VREELAND
A TYPESCRIPT LETTER
A typescript letter, signed, from Diana Vreeland to Audrey Hepburn on The Metropolitan Museum of Art headed stationery, dated 10 August, 1984, the one page letter in response to Audrey having praised her recently published autobiography ...My Darling Audrey: What a divine letter to have gotten from you. How nice and long and full of news. I am so happy you liked the book and that it amused you a bit. You are a divine girl and a divine friend and I think of you very often..., urging her to call when next in New York I do love to see you and hear you talk again, and again, the letter finishing I send you much much love and don't forget you are one of my favourite people, signed in green felt pen Diane xxx
8 ½ x 5 ½ in. (21.6 x 13 cm.)

专家说明

Legendary fashion editor Diana Vreeland wrote for Harper's Bazaar for 26 years before becoming editor in chief of American Vogue from 1963-1971. At 69, Vreeland then became the driving force of the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute in New York. Vreeland was the inspiration for Kay Thompson's character Maggie Prescott, fierce editor of Quality magazine in Funny Face.